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    It is not the case that Knowledge is more valuable than right opinion because when you know, you know that you know, giving you complete conviction.

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    • 1.Plato's Meno already establishes that right opinion is equally action-guiding as knowledge, undermining any practical superiority grounded in conviction.
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    • 2.The added conviction of 'knowing that one knows' is epistemically idle if the first-order belief is true and reliably formed, as Gettier cases demonstrate.
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    • 3.Higher-order conviction can be present in cases of false belief, so certainty is neither sufficient nor necessary for the value attributed to knowledge.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's On Certainty shows that the felt conviction of 'knowing that one knows' is a psychological state, not an epistemic guarantor of truth.
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    • 2.If complete conviction were the source of knowledge's value, dogmatists and the self-deceived would possess the most valuable epistemic states, which is absurd.
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    • 1.In the case of right opinion, one cannot rule out that unreliable causal processes are operating on that opinion.
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    • 2.In the case of knowledge, one can rule out that unreliable causal processes are operating, because knowledge entails knowing that one knows.
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    • 3.Complete conviction is more valuable than opinion held without such certainty.
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